Abteilung Psychologie

01/2015 - 03/2020

PhD in Psychology, The University of Edinburgh, UK

Project: Advancing our understanding of major depression and its assessment using experience sampling methodology
Primary supervisor: Dr René Mõttus; secondary supervisor: Professor Timothy C. Bates
Co-student representative of Psychology PhD students (2017-2018)

09/2011 - 08/2012

M.Sc. in the Psychology of Individual Differences, The University of Edinburgh, UK
Project: Affective forecasting under uncertainty    
Supervisor: Professor Timothy C. Bates

09/2001 - 06/2005

B.Sc. in Life Science, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan
WORK EXPERIENCE

since 06/2024

Postdoctoral researcher, AE20: Clinical child and adolescent psychology and psychotherapy, Department of Psychology, Bielefeld University, Germany

Project:

ProChild: Preventing maltreatment and promoting mental health in children of mothers with borderline personality disorder
Sub-Project 3: Family climate and relationship quality in dyads of mothers with Borderline Personality Disorder and their infants

- Help with data collection

06/2020 - 06/2024

Postdoctoral researcher, AE3: Developmental Psychology and Developmental Psychopathology, Department of Psychology, Bielefeld University, Germany

- Supervise Bachelor and Masters dissertations, manage research projects, and teach Bachelor and Master’s
  level seminars

- The seminars are:

• The diagnosis, classification, and development of mental disorders across the lifespan (Bachelors, 2020-2024)
• Project seminar (Master’s, 2020-2022)
• Health Psychology and Health Communication (Master’s, October 2021 - February 2022)

New perspectives and recent developments in the biological causes of mental disorders (Master’s, 2022-2023)

01-05/2019

Research Assistant, School of Philosophy, The University of Edinburgh, UK
Project: Student experiences in the University of Edinburgh
- Manage, prepare and execute the research project

01-03/2019 &

09/2015 – 08/2018

Tutor, Department of Psychology, the University of Edinburgh, UK

Teach tutorials and labs. Mark essays and tutorial and lab reports. Monitor the progress of student industry/charity projects. Advice on how to improve essay clarity and structure in one-on-one meetings. 

• Psychology Outreach and Engagement (Bachelors, 2019)
• Critical Analysis (Bachelors, 2015-2018)
• School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences (PPLS) Writing Centre (Bachelors, 2017-2018)
• Psychology 2 (Bachelors, 2015-2017)
• Activity week (Bachelors, February and October 2017
• Challenge week (Bachelors, October 2015)

05-12/2014

Research Assistant, Department of Special Education, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan

Project: Neural and behavioural correlates of auditory and psycholinguistic processing in children with reading difficulties in Chinese

- Produce experiment stimuli using LabVIEW, Audacity, and Praat

2017

Presidents fund – Edinburgh Association of University Women (£1,000)

08/06/2023

Sample size planning for intensive longitudinal studies, Society for Ambulatory Assessment Conference 2023, Amsterdam

14/03/2023

Latent state-trait modelling with MPLUS, Advanced Techniques for Longitudinal Data Analysis in Social Science ATLASS 2023, Bielefeld

25-29/01/2021

Psychological Networks Amsterdam Winter School 2021, Online